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Santorelli is a stopgap/injury replacement measure, nothing more. He delivers decent production for cheap, but certainly ain't a building block. Sad thing is, he's probably got a way better chance of securing a plum role in Toronto's offense than he had on a depleted Canucks roster.

Local kid who excited the crowd and had 10 goals in half a season and was accelerating when he got hurt, 1.5 for a year and he was playing 2nd line when he went down, I think this was a big mistake,
we'll see

A hefty raise for Tanev, but once again, he's left to prove himself given the one year deal. One has to wonder if the rumours were true about trying to move him to the Sabres in a package deal for Tyler Myers.

For the first time in his career, Tanev faced legitimately tough competition last season. In fact, by every measure of rating the opposition a player faces — ice time, plus/minus, Corsi, and relative Corsi — Tanev led all Canucks defencemen. Tanev was one of the few players who thrived under John Tortorella, taking on a shutdown role, regularly facing the best players the opposition had to offer.

Most impressively, Tanev tilted the ice in the right direction when facing that competition. Despite starting the majority of his shifts in the defensive zone, Tanev maintained positive possession statistics, with the Canucks taking 51.2% of the shot attempts when he was on the ice. In fact, Tanev started more often in the defensive zone than any other Canucks defenceman last season, yet maintained a positive Corsi.

And is competitive swim season over? Not complaining to have you back, actually happy to see you on here, just curious about the change.

Rumours before FA were that he wanted 2 years, the Nucks were only willing to offer one. With Richardson, Lane, Guance and Horvat all possibly pushing for the 4th line and then they picked up Bonino and Vey (who can play centre as well as RW) for 2C and Mathias for 3C they're pretty full at the position. Could use a better 2C though.

It's too bad, he played extremely well last year and the fans certainly appreciated him. However with the injury it was a pretty small sample size and his prior history suggests he was playing over his head and it was unsustainable.

I agree... Has anyone heard that Markstrom has asked for a trade now that he's essentially low-man on the scrotum-pole?

He was in the mix for the Blades job. It's no Saskatoon, but good to see Pearn found himself a decent job.

Well I was definitely a hater of the Kelser trade but after considering that he only allowed one team to be traded to came around to luke warm. Good read breaking down the numbers. This definitely moves me to the positive side about the trade and quite frankly it portends the possibility of it actually turning into a pretty lop sided win for the Nucks................time will tell

To put this into perspective, there are, by definition, 90 1st line forwards in the NHL at any one given time. Kassian's scoring rate was consistent with that of a low-end 1st line winger, and was the same as Brandon Saad, David Perron, Reilly Smith, Ryan O'Reilly, and James van Reimsdyk - some pretty good company for a guy who's "struggled" at times.

http://vansunsportsblogs.com/2014/10/03/5-canucks-who-could-play-on-the-second-line-with-bonino-and-burrows/

Is there any way we can offload Sbisa? He looks every bit as bad as he ever has been.

Well it has been a long time since the fan base has had a Brent Sopel equivalent to rally around before we tether and tie them to a stake....you need a match?